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Sad reading, having walked around the lake, stayed in three of the huts, and visited the others. It's a popular walk, I encountered groups of foreign visitors from Germany, Switzerland, and Israel. It's not a very good advertisement for the country in the current state.Originally Posted by R650R
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Come warm yourself by the fire
Meh. I doubt it.
US has had some F'ed up stuff in the last few decades. Whiles its been bad, it did make a few more people proactive about how they feel (for good and bad reasons). People blamed social media but these folks were f'ed up to begin with, social media just amplified them.
Meanwhile back in NZ. We have spent 50 years on perfecting how to boil a frog.
Last solid protests were against apartheid. Even the motorcycle tax protests barely moved the needle.
Politicians don't even fear the public. They could ask for you first born or you left kidney and 30% of kiwi's would be compliant by default.
"I know it sounds bad, but its for the greater good. Someone else needs that kidney and my child will have a great education in the camp"
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Wearing Hi-Viz Black.
No I havent. YOU fail to recognise that 55 million of taxpayer dollars has been used to purchase the media outlets of NZ - so long as they meet certain "output requirements" which are provided by this government.
Thank fuck someone can comprehend this shit.
Has KB been dumbed down even further recently with fuckwits and autistic cunts?
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I'm kind of confused that anyone pays any attention to any sort of "news" media outlet. You guys know you're just feeding the trolls, right?
If a man is alone in the woods and there isn't a woke Hollywood around to call him racist, is he still white?
Kruger-Dunning Parts n Service
Hehe must share positive rep before giving more....
Just imagine what he’d say if Trump had given media financial assistance with caveats about how the money is spent.
“Today it’s more important than ever in the era of fake news, that’s you cnn, yes that’s you and you know it; more important than ever that people have access to accurate news. Accurate news that’s important you know. Very important.
Tremendously important, especially to successful business people like me, spending A LOT of money on big projects, BIG projects making America great again.
When your doing that, making America great again, it’s tremendously important to have accurate news.
So today I’m signing the Affordable Media Access bill to authorise the funding of all American media outlets that report on all the ways that Americans are making America great again, even you cnn. Yes even cnn will be eligible, they more than anyone else need to hire some new journalists.”
Govt gives you nothing because it creates nothing - Javier Milei
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https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/crime...ars-police-say
Thanks Jacinda making NZ great again... maybe this was the policy to lower house prices? Despite her/HNZ moving two gang families into my street prices have still gone up like rocket.
Govt gives you nothing because it creates nothing - Javier Milei
Well, this is awkward...
I'm not sure that $55 million would be enough to 'purchase' an industry that still has revenues in the multiple $100s of millions, albeit those are in steady decline. I agree that the Public Interest Journalism Fund is a problematic solution to the cost cutting measures most are being forced to take, but if your thesis is that he who pays the piper calls the tune, shouldn't we be just as concerned about private ownership as we are about taxpayer funding?
If the problem is you're reading things online which don't appear in the general 'media', you might like to consider that traditional local media are considered 'publishers' and therefore subject to long standing legal redress and regulation.
Overseas based online platforms aren't yet subject to the same level of scrutiny, and are fighting tooth and nail not to be.
I'm still seeing articles published in local media critical of the government and its policies. If they were to disappear altogether, then yes, that would be a problem.
Moe: Well, I'm better than dirt. Well, most kinds of dirt. I mean not that fancy store bought dirt. That stuffs loaded with nutrients. I...I can't compete with that stuff.- The Simpsons
The Majestic Metal Wizard
Well, that depends.
You can have the classical BBC solution (which used to be the gold standard in terms of unbiased reporting and content) - which is a very strict set of rules to prevent Bias or in cases where there is an issue that could be perceived as being biased that it's handled in such a way to present both sides fairly.
Or you can have the CNN/Fox solution - whereby both sides of an argument are represented, but represented on a single platform. This does run the risk of Echo Chambers, but whenever I watch something from CNN, I take a massive grain of salt that I'm watching the Democrat party narrative. When I watch something from Fox, Likewise but from the Republican view.
And you've hit the nail on the head - you have platforms such as Twitter, Youtube etc. taking editorial stances on certain issues/people - which is in contradiction to their claims of just being a platform.
I've seen some critique, but I think it's fair to say the following:
The critique of the government by the media has been more strident when it comes to concepts that the Left-Wing Media is favourable to (such as wanting more to be done for Climate Change) than it has for issues that are in violation of our natural human rights (Vaccine Mandates).
Today, however, I was bouyed by the fact that some businesses have publicly stated they will not discriminate based on Vaccination status and so are moving either to takeaway only models or simply not checking.
They will receive my continued business, the Cowards who post signs of 'we don't want to do it, but are doing it anyway' will not.
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
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Valid points.... but the thing with private ownership is they have to produce a product consumers are WILLING to buy. It’s no coincidence that the decline in media independence through corporate ownership and in our case state sponsorship that people don’t want to BUY the product.
Technology took away MAJOR production costs for media outlets but in the rush to be first with the news and get as revenue based on click counts they’ve thrown away the quality and accuracy element along with any rational independent scrutiny of statements.
I just love Fluff news latest beggar banner where they say “hey you pay for streaming movies, you pay to curate your music in cloud, you pay for the latest blah blah you get it...” but they completely miss they are giving example of QUALITY products or services that people are Happy with.
Yes there are some articles critical of govt and been increasing lately but no where near what they used to be against both parties.
Govt gives you nothing because it creates nothing - Javier Milei
Wearing Hi-Viz Black.
Sadly the taxpayers are being milked to feed the problem.
OK, perhap rephrase it to "rent for a while"?
Sadly we still have the current level of journalists' and their particular approaches to writing an article.
Even worse is the editor and his/her a: lack of oversight, b: particular bias, c: ineptitude.
TOP QUOTE: “The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of other people’s money.”
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Won't the world be a better place when we have someone as impartial as you at the tiler of the media.
Don't you look at my accountant.
He's the only one I've got.
The Majestic Metal Wizard
Well, I've been on record on this site on numerous times supporting the right to speak/post of people that I vigorously disagree with, so....
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
Smarty pants... since ages ago
Like journalists that edit their articles with Spellcheck. The words used are spelt correctly ... just the grammatical errors remain. ie: Correct spelling ... but incorrect or wrong words used.
When life throws you a curve ... Lean into it ...
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https://i.stuff.co.nz/national/30046...ed-in-miq-quit
Yet another own goal by this govt, wrecked our military.
I’d say the numbers are worse than reported as most kiwis don’t like to be negative and bridge burning when they leave somewhere. It’s a small place and you may have to go back.
Govt gives you nothing because it creates nothing - Javier Milei
Anorak
You mean like the provisos on it being spent on having local reporters based in NZ reporting on NZ stories
How dare they......
Where was your outrage over this
When Key gave private companies billions of dollars i find it odd he never asked for any conditionsThe latest Crown financial statements show that National’s failed asset sales have carved a path of destruction through the government books,
The Financial Statements show that the sale of Meridian for below its book value wiped $378 million off the Crown’s net worth. This stands in stark contrast to the Government’s assumption that it would sell the assets for $700 million more than they were valued at on the government accounts. Additionally, the Financial Statements show that the ‘buy now, pay later’ scheme for Meridian has cost $33 million and ‘direct sales costs’ were $21 million. That is additional to more than $9 million spent by Meridian and Treasury in preparation for the sale.
"Selling Meridian for a low price has wiped $378 million off the Crown’s net wealth. Add to that, $33 million for the ‘buy now, pay later’ scheme, $21 million for brokers, lawyers, and ad-men, and millions more for Treasury and Meridian staff costs. That’s $450 million lost on just one asset sale.
"The sale of Mighty River cost a further $66 million in sales costs and has so far cost the public $49 million in lost dividends.
"National said that the cost of the asset sales would be minimal and the sales would go so well that they would sell the companies for more than they were worth. The opposite has happened.
"The taxpayer has lost hundreds of millions of dollars, and so have the ordinary Kiwi families who were conned into buying these shares by National’s $8 million ad campaign.
Company name Entry date in scheme Failure date Amount paid out Allied Nationwide Finance Limited 19 November 2008 20 August 2010 $131.0m Equitable Mortgages Limited 4 December 2008 26 November 2010 $140.2m Mascot Finance Limited 12 January 2009 2 March 2009 $70.0m Mutual Finance Limited 13 November 2008 14 July 2010 $9.2m Rockforte Finance Limited 20 February 2009 10 May 2010 $4.0m South Canterbury Finance Limited 19 November 2008 31 August 2010 $1,580.3m Strata Finance Limited 19 November 2008 31 August 2010 $0.5m Viaduct Capital Limited 13 November 2008 14 May 2010 $7.6m Vision Securities Limited 5 December 2008 1 April 2010 $30.0m
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